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It's not just construction jobs that get created. Businesses are lining up to develop TOD's (Transit Oriented Developments). The walkable city movement is occurring in every major city in the US, and it's something our city council should be championing as well. As opposed to the old "build a tollway, and hope for big box outlets and tons o' drive through traffic" mentality. That's so 1995.

yahoo for rail! yahoo for jobs!

keep layin' that track, i say.

Hmmm, 64 million per mile. I bet private business could provide a lot more jobs for that 64 million per mile boondoggle.

Does this mean that when the contractor finishes the project that the government destroyed 2200 jobs?

Hey roadside, how do suppose "private contractors" should take the land? The use of eminent domain to purchase the right of way, extra purchases along the rail all are likely in those figures. As I understand it the base cost for rail is about $1mil/mile. Bridges, intersections and stations, parking and access all add cost. Even "privatized" public funds would be subsidizing large parts of the project.

Wow. This has really opened my eyes, i can't believe Republicans would lie to us like this. It looks like i'll have to re-evaluate my entire belief syst......wait a second, what's this -

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.

Well, Democrats wouldn't gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.....would they?

CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing.

What? You mean to say that useless pork spending and government make work programs will eventually drive the country into the ground? But Democrats said it was all necessary and it would save the country! Democrats wouldn't lie to us...would they?

You're going to quote the Moonie Times? Ha!

Only $30B of Our Lord and Savior's package is for infrastructure projects like DART, the rest is for useless social programs that balloon spending and do nothing but keep people in poverty. Change *that* and then I might be impressed, Mister President.